To: Kenneth Engel <engel(a)cocteau.EBay.Sun.COM&gt; Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: search from menu puts "Search" on all frames' title bars From: Jan Vroonhof <jan.vroonhof(a)ntlworld.com&gt; Date: 18 Mar 2001 23:28:26 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Thelxepeia (GTK Inside)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Kenneth Engel <engel(a)cocteau.EBay.Sun.COM&gt; writes: > So the title bar contains the name of the buffer where the cursor is active > (if you have 2 or more per frame). > Ditto for the icon. > > I selected Edit->Find... from the menu (I was lazy that day:) which brought

> the Search dialog. Simultaneously, *all* my frames' title bars acquired the > title "Search". The icon names remained the name of the buffer. > > Changing buffers, opening other dialogs, even creating new frames - nothing > changes this state. The "Search" title remains on all frames until I quit. You are right. This is because make-dialog-box simply setq's this variable. The only problem is, I cannot seem to fix it :-( Making the variable buffer local doesn't work. Changing it into a specifier should work, but I cannot get it to behave like it should... Jan